Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture

Hess, Alan

ISBN 10: 081184272X / ISBN 13: 9780811842723

Published by Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, California, 2004

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222pp.incl.index; SC b/w photo w/white; fine conditiow w/clean,tight photos. "Glorious coffee shops, delirious drive-ins, and gems of roadside architecture. In page after page of iconic design -- Googie Redux is the benchmark history of the humble eateries that fulfilled some of modernism's greatest dreams." color&b/w photos throughout. signed on title pg. Seller Inventory # 015306

Bibliographic Details

Title: Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside ...

Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, California

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Fine (New)

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (New)

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Revised & Expanded

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Synopsis:

The book that helped spark the retro craze for fifties architecture and introduced the term googie to the world is back! First published by Chronicle in 1986, this key survey of mid-century coffee shop and commercial architecture is still the standard work on the subject Googie Redux is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of the classic and perennial top-selling book that rekindled the craze for 1950s coffee shop and commercial architecture. Long derided by critics as popular folly, the style - so named after John Lautner's eccentric Los Angeles coffee shop - was emblematic of Southern California's car-oriented architecture. By the time of the first edition's debut, these buildings were being demolished by the score. Alan Hess' 1985 Chronicle book did much not only to educate, legitimize, and popularize the style that characterized this endangered architecture, but it helped spark a resurgence of interest into midcentury modern design. Completely revised and significantly expanded in both text and images (some of them recently unearthed for this edition), this redesigned package features is still an entertaining and informative look at the rise, fall, and resurgence of the commercial architecture that changed the American landscape. Includes a greatly expanded guided tour of the iconic buildings in Southern California.

About the Author:

Alan Hess is architecture critic of the San Jose Mercury News and the author of numerous books, including Palm Springs Weekend (0-8118-2804-2) and Rancho Deluxe (0-8118-2420-9). He divides his time between Northern California and Michigan.